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Imaginaries of development corridors: Delivering the Sustainable Development Goals through development corridors in East Africa Kate Elizabeth Gannon, Laetitia Pettinotti, Declan Conway, Swenja Surminski, Edward Ndilhana and Tobias Nyumba December 2020 Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy Working Paper No. 383 ISSN 2515-5709 (Online) Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment Working Paper No. 355 ISSN 2515-5717 (Online) The Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy (CCCEP) was established by the University of Leeds and the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2008 to advance public and private action on climate change through innovative, rigorous research. The Centre is funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council. Its third phase started in October 2018 with seven projects: 1. Low-carbon, climate-resilient cities 2. Sustainable infrastructure finance 3. Low-carbon industrial strategies in challenging contexts 4. Integrating climate and development policies for ‘climate compatible development’ 5. Competitiveness in the low-carbon economy 6. Incentives for behaviour change 7. Climate information for adaptation More information about CCCEP is available at www.cccep.ac.uk The Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment was established by the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2008 to bring together international expertise on economics, finance, geography, the environment, international development and political economy to create a world-leading centre for policy-relevant research and training. The Institute is funded by the Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment and a number of other sources. It has 11 broad research areas: 1. Climate change adaptation and resilience 2. Climate change governance, legislation and litigation 3. Environmental behaviour 4. Environmental economic theory 5. Environmental policy evaluation 6. International climate politics 7. Science and impacts of climate change 8. Sustainable finance 9. Sustainable natural resources 10. Transition to zero emissions growth 11. UK national and local climate policies More information about the Grantham Research Institute is available at www.lse.ac.uk/GranthamInstitute Suggested citation: Gannon K E, Pettinotti L, Conway D, Surminski S, Ndilhana E and Nyumba T (2020) Imaginaries of development corridors: Delivering the Sustainable Development Goals through development corridors in East Africa. Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy Working Paper 383/Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment Working Paper 355. London: London School of Economics and Political Science This working paper is intended to stimulate discussion within the research community and among users of research, and its content may have been submitted for publication in academic journals. It has been reviewed by at least one internal referee before publication. The views expressed in this paper represent those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of the host institutions or funders. Imaginaries of Development Corridors: Delivering the Sustainable Development Goals through development corridors in East Africa Kate Elizabeth Gannon*1 ([email protected]), Laetitia Pettinotti2, Declan Conway1, Swenja Surminski1, Edward Ndilhana3 and Tobias Nyumba4. 1 Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics 2 Overseas Development Institute, London, UK 3 WWF Tanzania 4 African Conservation Centre / University of Nairobi Abstract This research provides critical analysis of development corridors as a mechanism for delivering on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Using Q-Methodology, we identify three qualitatively distinct imaginaries of development corridors that exist among development actors, across five development corridors in East Africa. These imaginaries articulate shared understandings of the ways in which corridors are likely to support, or limit, achievement of the SDGs by 2030. Contributing to sparse literatures on SDG interdependencies and trade-offs, they also construct explanatory logics around the ways in which SDGs goals and targets interact within corridors. Our analysis suggests that SDG goals and targets are mostly synergistic in corridor landscapes, creating conditions that aid the achievement of each other. However, we also (1) identify specific clusters of goals and targets that are considered to be directly mutually reinforcing and which, strengthened in parallel, could upscale development within corridors and; (2) identify ways in which, following current corridor trajectories, progress towards some SDGs is likely to directly threaten progress towards other goals and targets. Particularly, the analysis identifies biodiversity conservation (SDG14/SDG15), sustainability (SDG11, SDG12, SDG13) and secure and equal access to land (SDG2.3) to be potential trade-offs to other development gains in current corridor trajectories and suggests corridors are not on track to achieve the Agenda 2030 pledge to ‘leave no one behind’. Our analysis of SDG interactions in corridors signals priority areas for investment, policy reorientation and strengthened safeguards, to maximise positive SDG interactions and minimise negative ones across multiple interacting policy domains. The research emphasises the need for more integrated corridor governance if the SDGs are to be achieved efficiently, and as a whole, and we suggest ways to enhance policy coherence in corridors, across often siloed sectors. Keywords: Development corridors; Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); SDG synergies and trade- offs; policy coherence/integrated development planning; Tanzania; Kenya 1. Introduction 1.1 Development corridors in sub-Saharan Africa Development corridors represent an important development paradigm in many areas of the world, including in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA): Over 30 ‘corridors’, at various stages of planning and development are in progress in SSA (Enns, 2018; Laurance et al., 2015) and corridors are often positioned as flagship initiatives in national development polices (Schindler and Kanai, 2019). Development corridors are a generally ill-defined and disputed concept and the material practice of corridors, and the nature of corridor investments, varies significantly. In this paper we define development corridors as programmatic frameworks for spatially targeted investment, aimed at organising defined territories to foster human development via economic growth, often across 1 multiple economic sectors. Corridors are generally mobilised around objectives of developing a backbone of hard infrastructure (e.g. transport, distribution, water, energy, communication), alongside broader interventions designed to foster an enabling environment for private enterprise, within a determined geographic area (e.g. through the creation of special economic zones, investments in production areas and value chains and other soft infrastructure and enabling policies). Development corridors attract a lot of development finance from national and international sources. Infrastructure-led spatial planning development strategies have been advanced by global and regional initiatives, from institutions such as the World Economic Forum, the Asian Development Bank, the African Union, the African Development Bank and the G20 (Schindler and Kanai, 2019). Large developing nations seeking to expand their sphere of influence and access to emerging markets are very influential in corridor development: Most notably China, through various regional development strategies such as ‘One belt, one road’, has become one of Africa’s major investors, partially funding many of Africa’s development corridors (Gu et al., 2019). National governments are directing their limited public sector resources towards developing corridors, aiming to attract foreign direct investment, overseas development assistance and private sector investment. At the same time, development corridors have become focal points for overseas development assistance (Enns, 2018). Countries have also signed up to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); a United Nations (UN) led development framework that, although non-legally binding, national leaders committed to deliver within their own national contexts by 2030. The SDGs are mobilised around 17 development goals, 169 targets and a commitment to equitable development, captured in the pledge to ‘leave no one behind’ (United Nations, 2015). It is generally assumed that development corridors will contribute to the achievement of the SDGs. Indeed, the potential for resources needed to achieve Agenda 2030 to be unlocked through development corridors has been recognised at national and international levels, including through the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing in 2019 (Gu et al., 2019). Given the extensive financial and political resources being diverted to corridor implementation, it is essential that this is realised. Recent research, however, has highlighted that development corridors can have enormous social and environmental consequences, produce a range of large-scale social, political, economic and environmental trade-offs, generate very uneven impacts and exclude vulnerable populations (Chome, 2020; Enns, 2019; Hughes, 2019; Lawer, 2019; Lesutis, 2019a, 2019b). 1.2 Development trade-offs and synergies and a lack of integrated planning in corridors The SDG agenda explicitly recognises that the SDGs are interconnected and
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